The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-11-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

1t is estimated that the corn crop
of the South this year will exceed that
of last year by 1900. 900 bushels. and
that, SO far as this important product
is concerned, she will be self-support-
ing.
The pulse of young woman has
been beating at the rate Of 1875 per min
ute for two years past, in consequence
of severe fright from plaster falling
upon her from the ceiling and by which
she was awakened.
Some of the grape growers along
the Hudson have been obliged to en-
ploy man for five or six hours a day
to shoot sparrows, as the only way of
saving the crop of grapes. That is
dear price to pay for SO miserable a
whistle.
"A New York photographer is max
ing the wedding season remuneratiye.
He advertises that he will make a
speciality of taking brides pictures on
..the eve of the ceremony" and he
gives long list Of names as society
references.
The Toronto Globe says the latest
advertising dodge is to strew about the
sidewalks bogus purses from which
bogus bills stick out, the idea being
that the people who pick them up will
have their attention drawn to the adver-
tisements printed on them.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
| has found that the leaves of the Usage
| orange are as good as mulberry leaves
for silkworms to feed upon. With an
Usage orange diet. the silk produced is
in no respect inferior, either in guam
tity or quality.-M Y Ledger.
"A Boston man, who had habit Of
interfering the phrase II believe you"
in his conversations, became an embez-
zler and fled, not long ago, and hint
of his popularity was telegraphed
| West Within twenty-four hours a
Minnesota detective had the fugitive in
custody.
"A woman in Elmira got out an old
clock that had been out of use for
thirty years, wound it up. and started
it, but did not disturb the hands. think
ing that she would wait and set the
clock by her husbands watch. Before
he returned the city clock struck, and
she was surprised to see that the old
timepiece was right to the fraction OF
a minute.
"A recent Partisan suicide was of a
singular thoughtful turn of mind. Two
lock-keepers on the St. Martin canal,
seeing a rope attached to an-iron ring
on the quay, haulded it in and found
the dead body of man on the other
end. In one Of the coat pockets was a
paper explaining that the precaution
had been taken so that his body would
be found before decomposition set in.
AT Barre, VT, monster block OF
granite is being removed from the
quarry for shipment to California,
where it will do service in a bank
vault. 1t is twenty-five feet long, five
feet thick and five feet wide. 1t is
being taken out by steam power, and
will then be transported four miles to
the railroad station. 1t will require
thirty spans of horses to draw it the
four miles.
An animal with the head and tail
of an alligator and the back and claws
of tortoise is on exhibition at the
store of George Hulse, a Liverpool i'm
porter of turtles. 1t is called the alli-
gator tortoise, and was captured by an
English sailor in the swamps near New
Orleans. The English naturalists
have never seen any thing like it be-
fore, and are trying to buy it for a
public museum.
Among the papers read before the
International Medical Congress, re.
Gently held at Washington, was one on
the sanitary effect of the overflow Of
rivers in the South. The opinions Of
five hundred physicians practicing in
the Southern States were collated to
show that such overflows generally
proved injurious to the public health.
Those localities suffer least, however,
which are ordinarily the best drained
IN Y Ledger.
| John Buckley, of Meriden, Conn,
caught a swapping turtle and took il
to the central telephone Office, where
he purposed killing it with electricity
He let the turtle snap at one end o.
a wire, put another wire beneath it.
shell, and turned on the full strength
of the current. He AYERS that he
''heard the current go drought it.
making noise like a small planning
machine" and he left the turtle fol
dead. The next morning he found the
turtle walking around and swapping al
wires, as though it wanted another
taste Of the current